A Behavioural Power Index

Serguei Kaniovski and Dennis Leech

The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) from University of Warwick, Department of Economics

Abstract: We propose an empirically relevant measure of voting power that uses the information about real or assumed voting patterns conveyed by a joint probability distribution on the set of voting outcomes, and apply it to the voting data of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Keywords: a priori voting power; behavioural voting power; U.S. Supreme Court (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2007
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